“25 Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill? 26 And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
John 7:25-26
Jesus has returned to Jerusalem, he’s teaching publicly, and the religious leaders aren’t doing anything. The crowd is left scratching their heads trying to reconcile everything that’s transpiring before their eyes. If Jesus is lying, why aren’t they doing anything? If Jesus is falsely claiming to be God, then he must be punished.
Maybe the religious leaders know something that the crowd doesn’t know. Maybe Jesus is telling the truth. Maybe Jesus is the Christ. “Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?”
The question they ask here is one of the most important questions anyone could ever ask. Is Jesus the Christ?